The Merchant of Venice: With Notes, Introduction and Glossary EditedH. Holt and Company, 1905 - 89 pages |
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... sweet sounds ' ( V. i . 84 ) . Double comparative also is used . ' How much more elder art thou than thy looks ' ( IV . i . 247 ) .. 14. The accent on many words is not placed as at present . ' I tell thee , lady , this aspéct of mine ...
... sweet sounds ' ( V. i . 84 ) . Double comparative also is used . ' How much more elder art thou than thy looks ' ( IV . i . 247 ) .. 14. The accent on many words is not placed as at present . ' I tell thee , lady , this aspéct of mine ...
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... sweet madam , if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good for- tunes are and yet , for aught I see , they are as sick that surfeit with too much , as they that starve with nothing . It is no mean happiness , therefore , to ...
... sweet madam , if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good for- tunes are and yet , for aught I see , they are as sick that surfeit with too much , as they that starve with nothing . It is no mean happiness , therefore , to ...
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... sweet Jew ! if a Christian be not in some way thy father , I am much deceived . But , adieu : these foolish drops do something drown my manly spirit : adieu . Jes . Farewell , good Launcelot . 10 [ Exit Launcelot . Alack , what heinous ...
... sweet Jew ! if a Christian be not in some way thy father , I am much deceived . But , adieu : these foolish drops do something drown my manly spirit : adieu . Jes . Farewell , good Launcelot . 10 [ Exit Launcelot . Alack , what heinous ...
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... Sweet friends , your patience for my long abode ; Not I , but my affairs , have made you wait : ΙΟ 20 When you shall please to play the thieves for wives , I'll watch as long for you then . Approach ; Here dwells my father Jew . Ho ...
... Sweet friends , your patience for my long abode ; Not I , but my affairs , have made you wait : ΙΟ 20 When you shall please to play the thieves for wives , I'll watch as long for you then . Approach ; Here dwells my father Jew . Ho ...
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... sweet , Even in the lovely garnish of a boy . But come at once ; For the close night doth play the runaway , And we are stay'd for at Bassanio's feast . Jes . I will make fast the doors , and gild myself 40 With some mo ducats , and be ...
... sweet , Even in the lovely garnish of a boy . But come at once ; For the close night doth play the runaway , And we are stay'd for at Bassanio's feast . Jes . I will make fast the doors , and gild myself 40 With some mo ducats , and be ...
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Antonio Bass beauty Bellario Belmont better bond caskets choose chooseth Christian daughter doth Duke Exeunt Exit eyes fair father flesh Folio fool forfeit fortune gentle Gentlemen of Verona give gold Gratiano hast hath hear heart heaven Henry Henry VI honour husband Jessica Jew of Malta Jew's Julius Cæsar lady Laun Launcelot look Lord Bassanio Lorenzo Love's Labour's Lost Madam master means Merchant of Venice mercy merry Midsummer Night's Dream Nerissa never night noble oath Old Gobbo Othello peize play Portia pray thee prince prodigal proposed to read Rialto Richard II ring Salan Salanio Salar Salarino Salerio Scene sense Shakespeare shalt Shylock signify Signior soul speak stand Stratford swear sweet tell thou thought three thousand ducats to-night Troilus and Cressida Tubal unto verb wife word young ΙΟ
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Page 13 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart ; O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Page 28 - The reason is, your spirits are attentive ; For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing, and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood; If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze, By the sweet power of music.
Page 14 - Shylock, we would have moneys : ' you say so ; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold : moneys is your suit. What should I say to you ? Should I not say ' Hath a dog money ? is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats...
Page 14 - And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much To mitigate the justice of thy plea; Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there. SHY. My deeds upon my head! I crave the law, The...
Page xxxvi - And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Page 3 - If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh ? If you poison us, do we not die ? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute ; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Page 2 - Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions ? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is ? if you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ? if we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Page 5 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes
Page 14 - I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart : If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority : To do a great right, do a little wrong ; And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Page ix - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.